Prose
Autor: | Bonnefoy, Yves |
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EAN: | 9781784108113 |
Sachgruppe: | Pädagogik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 456 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Herausgeber: | Naughton, John Romer, Stephen Rudolf, Anthony |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 27.02.2020 |
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Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art criticism, as in his literary essays, Bonnefoy manages that rare thing: to impart metaphysical urgency to each discreet encounter with a painting or a poem, born of his constant quest for intensity, for 'presence'. Whether he is examining an early Byzantine fresco, a Shakespeare play, a Bernini angel, a drawing by Blake, a poem by Rimbaud, the exigency, the high seriousness and the challenge is the same: to affirm presence, and finitude, against all forms of life-sapping conceptual thought. If they cannot always deliver ecstasy or hope, the great poets, argues Bonnefoy, are pledged to 'intensity as such', sustained by 'une mélancolie ardente'.